Posted 3 years ago on Dec. 31, 2012, 12:03 a.m. EST by LowTech
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Week of action against space travel.

May 19-25, 2013

Space travel is the launch of satellites, space stations, space probes, space shuttles, large rockets and other things into outer space. The money that the United States government is currently spending on space travel should be spent on helping the poor. The United States spends more money on space travel than any other country in the world. In 2010 the United States government spent $64 billion on space travel. Tell Congress to decrease funding for space travel, space exploration, NASA, military space programs and private space programs and increase funding for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, health care, disability benefits, retirement programs, unemployment benefits, welfare, aid to the poor, food stamps, food pantries, charities, homeless shelters and affordable housing. Call, email, contact your senators and representatives in Congress between May 19-25. Organize or attend a protest, march or rally against space travel between May 19-25. Donate your money to charities, food pantries, homeless shelters and other organizations that help the poor between May 19-25. Go to the website http://weeknospace.blogspot.com/ to learn more about the week of action against space travel.

The money that people spend on new technology should be spent on helping the poor. Instead of using their money to buy new technology people should donate their money to charities, food pantries, homeless shelters and other organizations that help the poor.

Tell everyone you know about this week of action. Pass out flyers for it. Email people about it. Tell people on Facebook, Myspace, Yahoo and other websites about it.

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To help the poor in a sustainable way, industries are needed that generate revenue for the government. Space exploration created a whole new industry, aerospace, that created good paying jobs for both blue and white collar workers, and also provided substantial money to the government.

Generating revenue through projects like a space program is the way to help the poor.

TOKYO--Toyota soon will use lithium ion batteries in a standard hybrid vehicle for the first time, as it slowly moves from older nickel metal hydride technology.

The lithium ion batteries will debut "in the very near future" in a Japan-market hybrid, a person familiar with the matter said. He declined to name the model or give a launch date.

But Toyota is turning to lithium for the model because it will free up more interior space, he said. As an example, he cited the dilemma of wedging more bulky nickel metal hydride batteries into the center console of the current hybrid version of the Japan-market Estima minivan.

Electric cars sound good, but still its fossil fuels that are charging the batteries, and some day, we'll be all out of that stuff. I think we need to jump to an even higher level of technology, solve the problems of nuclear energy, than we can be driving the hydrogen cars.

Hmm, you might be confusing two power sources. Hydrogen comes from water. Nuclear has been repeatedly shown to be way too dangerous to consider. Geothermal is one, passive saline/solar is another, and nano-film solar is also a huge breakthrough, along with liquid battery "ambri" storage tech.

Nuclear is over seventy years old now, and completely unacceptable, considering startup costs, maintanence issues, water usage, and risk factors. Look at the long-term damage done to Japan recently; not to mention the atrocious pollution of the Pacific ocean food-chain from this disaster.

Yes, hydrogen comes from water, and the electricity generated from nuclear power can be used to separate hydrogen from water. Some countries may consider nuclear power to be too dangerous, but others are trying to develop it as fast as they can. The Japanese tried to go without it, but found that they could not.

The world is aligning itself into two camps now, those that are developing nuclear energy and those that are scaling it back. Those that are developing nuclear energy are mostly in the developing countries, in Asia and South America, those that are scaling it back are mostly in Europe and North America. I suppose that only the future will tell us conclusively which side made the right choice.